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- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1840s
Nikolai Gogol’s ‘epic poem in prose’, Dead Souls is a damning indictment of a corrupt society, translated from the Russian with an introduction and notes by Robert A. Maguire in Penguin Classics. Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Koschei the Deathless is to Russian folklore what devils or wicked witches are to European culture: a menacing, evil figure; the villain of countless stories which have been passed on through story and text for generations. But Koschei has...
- Location(s): Berlin, Kaliningrad (Königsberg)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1945 and modern
Herr Parker, bitte folgen Sie mir. Wir haben nicht viel Zeit. Die Kanzlerin muss Berlin in einer Stunde verlassen – und will Sie vorher sehen.” Königsberg, 1945. Die Rote Armee rüstet sich zum Sturm auf die Stadt, in der...
- Location(s): Moscow, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1812-1990s
Devil’s Acre is a novel about love, Russia and forbidden architecture. Moscow, 1982. The oppressive Soviet regime is solidly in place: Leonid Brezhnev is praised to the skies for the brilliance of his unreadable memoirs: and the KGB is...
- Location(s): Kamchatka
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Present day
One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the north-eastern edge of Russia, two sisters are abducted. In the ensuing weeks, then months, the police investigation turns up nothing. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community, with...
- Location(s): Iran, Russia, Sweden, Turkey
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Slaughter in the Balkans, corruption, amorous women, an insurgency in the harsh wastes of a Central Asian failed state, murderous henchman, insufferable natives, interrogation by the enemy, theocratic megalomania, treachery, a sinister crime lord and pursuit by bloodthirsty maniacs...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Russian Revolution
This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987. One of the results of its publication in the West was Pasternak’s complete...
- Location(s): Kinshasa, London, Montevideo, Moscow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense, Thriller
- Era(s): 1960
From Leopoldville, to Antwerp to the quiet South American capital of Montevideo, Uruguay, Doomed Spy is a psychological spy thriller set in an unconventional distant posting at the height of the Cold War. At the center of the intrigue...
- Location(s): Central Asia, India, Russia
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Levison Wood was only 22 when he decided to hitch-hike from England to India through Russia, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, but he wasn’t the conventional follower of the hippy trail. A fascination with the deeds of the early explorers,...
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